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- Slightly warmer temperatures caused Atlantic superstormsA hundred thousand years ago, slightly warmer temperatures and CO2 levels lower than today led to dramatic superstorms and sea-level rise in the western Atlantic Ocean---READ-->>
- “There is no convincing alternative explanation”The new U.S. Climate Science Special Report is unequivocal: climate change is real, it is caused by human activity, especially greenhouse gas emissions, and it is getting more dangerous every day---READ-->>
- John Bellamy Foster on Jacobin and EcomodernismThe editor of Monthly Review responds to ‘socialists’ who view the environmental crisis as a problem of technology, not a fundamental rift in society’s relationship with nature.---READ-->>
- MR Press launches pathbreaking new books on ecosocialismKohei Saito, Ian Angus, Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams offer powerful, historically grounded arguments and a way forward for society and the earth---READ-->>
- Lancet report: Health impact of climate change impact is ‘the major threat of 21st century’The health of millions of people across the world is already being significantly harmed by climate change, a major new report finds.---READ-->>
- Greenhouse gas concentrations surge to new record‘The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, the temperature was 2-3°C warmer and sea level was 10-20 meters higher than now.’---READ-->>
- Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greedFred Magdoff reviews a new book in which Australian activists explain what’s wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and propose a manifesto for a people-centred alternative.---READ-->>
- Economic reconstruction, debt cancellation and self-determination in Puerto Rico!One month after Hurricane Maria: ‘We need an adequately funded program of economic reconstruction (including the transition to renewable energy), the powers to carry it out and a true process of political self-determination.’---READ-->>
- Mexican activists demand: Stop Canadian mega-mines nowVictims of mining tell Trudeau: Canadian mining corporations damage health, contaminate and destroy environments, dispossess indigenous people, and harass, smear and assassinate critics. Get out now!---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, October 2017Six new books on Marx’s ecosocialist views, climate change and health, theory and action, inevitability versus contingency in evolution, new politics, and the meaning of Capital---READ-->>
- Before Maria, forcing Puerto Rico to pay its debt was odious. Now, it’s pure cruelty.To expect Puerto Rico to rebuild from this unnatural disaster while at the same time bailing out Wall Street financiers is to condemn its residents to a permanent state of crushing hardship and impoverishment.---READ-->>
- István Mészáros: Capitalism and Ecological DestructionIstván Mészáros, one of the finest political philosophers of our time, died on October 1. As this article shows, he was one of the first Marxists to identify the global environmental crisis as a central contradiction of late capitalism.---READ-->>
- Science & Society reviews Facing the Anthropocene‘Required reading for people trying to understand not only how the Anthropocene arrived on the scene, but why left-leaning people everywhere need to understand it’---READ-->>
- Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialismIan Angus challenges a left-wing magazine that promotes geoengineering, nuclear power, carbon storage and other techno-fixes as solutions to climate change.---READ-->>
- Jacobin and ecomodernism: Two repliesClimate & Capitalism readers David Schwartzman and David Walters respond to criticism of Jacobin magazine’s special issue on climate change.---READ-->>
- How the ruling class remade New OrleansWhat will happen after the destruction caused by Harvey and Irma? The experience of New Orleans after Katrina shows what to expect when capitalists profit from disaster.---READ-->>
- Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2017Five new books for green-left activists, on urban climate change, past mass extinctions, tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice.---READ-->>
- What we sow is what we eatThe failure of modern food production derives from the nature of our economic system, which considers everything and everyone a commodity. It doesn’t have to be this way.---READ-->>
- Cholera, Contingency, and Marx’s Drinking WaterEcosocialist Notebook: A visit to two historic sites in London prompts thoughts about the role of individuals in history, and the possibility that Marxism might never have happened.---READ-->>
- The green energy cornucopia is 100 percent wishful thinkingSerious energy policy must address overproduction, overconsumption and inequality. Without that, promises of an economy based on 100% renewable energy are misleading and dangerous.---READ-->>